Don't be so angry. If you're not angry, it's coming across as angry from the use of italics, extraneous punctuation marks, and the thumbs down icon on each of your posts.

The point is you resurrected a thread that no one was discussing that was two years old from the last post, which itself had resurrected the thread from more than a year before that. Your post leads to a forum with people discussing how Portal/Portal 2 would work on an iPad, with the only logic to the hardware possibility being "Well, the game is 4 years old".

Your logic of the game being based on an engine that's half a decade old doesn't mean much. There's a lot more that goes into putting a game on the iPad than the question of if the hardware can push the game. How will the controls work? Portal and Portal 2 have a lot of places where timing is vitally important, and would be exceedingly difficult to do with a touch screen without almost complete redoing of the controls.

Resurrecting these old threads with a post linking to another forum where a discussion (that is itself over a year old and completely dead) has happened that presents no real evidence of why Portal is coming to the iPad just makes clutter for people to work through. If you want to present an argument for why you think Portal should be put on the iPad, create a thread for it.

It would be cool but...I would want a new portal game and not, I repeat, not Portal 1.

And you are the end all and be all

I think in another generation or two iPads will be powerful enough to run things like Steam to a degree and yes at that point we might see games ported over. Hopefully they will be ground up and not just emulators for the best performance. And I think the original Portal games are a likely and great choice for starting steps as they are the most known and the game play is the most compatible with a touch control system.

I would also like to see some classic Nintendo but suspect that's mainly ego in the way so who knows if it will ever happen

Resurrecting these old threads with a post linking to another forum where a discussion (that is itself over a year old and completely dead) has happened that presents no real evidence of why Portal is coming to the iPad just makes clutter for people to work through. If you want to present an argument for why you think Portal should be put on the iPad, create a thread for it.

I disagree. Resurrecting an old thread when you are commenting to follow up on the topic of the thread, which is still a valid topic of conversation is way better, IMHO, than starting multiple threads that might rehash some of the same points.

And clearly the forum controllers have no real issue with thread resurrection since they have the power to close threads and haven't bothered to lock all the old ones.